Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to another Dad's Bedtime
Stories super story where we go back into the Dad's
Bedtime Stories vault and put together a bit of a
compilation episode. Today or tonight, we're going to be sort
of finishing up on the Kid Wizard series with episode
seven and eight, if I remember correctly, Episode seven is
where you learn to control lightning magic, which is always
a fun time. And then episode eight you control time
magic and defeat Tyrannus rexingten youre arch enemy in this universe. Anyways,
I really hope you enjoy it, because now it's that
time again. Time to get as comfy as you can
in that bed, close your eyes and imagine yourself doing
what the kid in the story does. Imagine yourself walking
through the Wizarding Academy one day, a huge and ancient
castle with all sorts of hallways and rooms. You decide
it's time to visit the castle cafeteria. You tell the
castle what you're looking for, and a pathway on the
floor lights up with little arrows pointing you in the
right direction. You follow the arrows through the hall into
the main foyer, and then up a set of stairs
over the right and down another series of hallways. Eventually
it opens up into a huge cafeteria with a very
large balcony. Wizards of all different shapes, sizes, and colors
are all hanging out here. Some of them are talking,
others are eating. It's an absolute hub of wizarding activity.
The whole thing is set up like the food court
at a mall, a whole bunch of restaurants on every
different side, and a whole bunch of tables in the middle.
You search around, grab a tray of food, and pick
up a little bit of this and a little bit
of that from all of the different restaurants, until you
have a plate of food that you are very excited
to eat. On your way back to the table, you
hear a familiar voice.
Speaker 2: No if it.
Speaker 1: Isn't you, Oh no, you say, Tyrannus Rexington. What do
you want, Tyrannus? Oh me, Well, there's nothing I want
that I don't already have. Unlike you, I am a
well practiced file wizard, and recently my father has taught
me the art of lightning. Well that's that's really good
for you, Tyrannus it's cool, so you know lightning now,
great job. You should think it more great than you
seem to, kid, Tyrannus says. You decide to continue walking
in the other direction. There's no need to get into
some sort of duel or something like that right now.
Suddenly you feel a shock from behind. It jolts through
your entire body, causing you to throw your tray up
into the air and spill it all over the place.
When you look behind you, a little stream of smoke
is rising up from well, a little mark on your bum.
He just used lightning magic on you, you realize. You
turn to face Tyrannus. You clench both of your fists together,
and you begin to allow your power to spill out.
Ice spreads from your feet towards the other students when
you suddenly hear another familiar voice, Martin's, hey, kid, what
are you doing here? It looks like you're about to
burst a blood vessel or something. Come on, lighten up,
come with me. Martin turns you around and walks out
of the cafeteria behind him. Knowing that he's a trustworthy person,
you glance behind you at Tyrannus and all of his friends,
and they burst out laughing, slapping the table with joy. Boy,
did they get a kick out of that little electricity prank?
As you and Martin walk, he begins to speak to you, Well,
I hope you weren't about to try to take him
on lightnings, No laughing matter. If he's learned how to
control that, you need to learn how to be prepared
for it. Martin explains, well, how do I do that?
You ask, I'll show you, and you pick pretty much
everything up pretty quickly. So Eah, it shouldn't take long.
You and Martin walk through the hallways of the castle
until you eventually get to your training room once again.
The training is a huge, open area about the same
size as a gymnasium, only it's made with rock walls
instead of whatever gymnasiums are made of.
Speaker 2: You stand in the.
Speaker 1: Center of the room and Martin looks back towards you. Well,
lightning's really not that hard, especially if you understand how
it kind of works. You see, most lightning is caused
by the separation of positive man negative particles between a
cloud and the ground. What we're gonna do is called
the clapping method. It mimics that whole thing. First, take
one of your hands and imagine it pulling all of
the positive particles with it, as if it's a magnet.
Then take your other hand, man, imagine it pulling apart
all all of the negative particles like it's a magnet.
Then when you're ready, you let the two slap together. Man,
you unleash a bolt of lightning like this, Martin says,
clapping both of his hands together and unleashing a huge
bolt of electricity that flies across the room and destroys
part of the wall at the other side. WHOA, you say,
that was incredibly powerful. Yeah, and kind of hard to
control too. Honestly, lightning really isn't something you should mess
with unless you're with a trained professional like me, of course.
Now close your eyes and start to focus. You close
your eyes and do as Martin commands. Now, I want
you to start by focusing inward, sensing the natural electrical
energy within your body. Imagine each of your hands as
magnets ready to separate and gather the charge. One of
them is positive and the other is negative. Now picture
yourself actively pulling apart the positive and the negative charges
in the air around you. You might imagine one of
your hand gathering a cloud of negative charge. Think dark, dense,
crackling with static, while your other hand gathers positive things, light, bright,
and buzzing with energy.
Speaker 2: You do just as he tells you.
Speaker 1: You imagine your right hand is light, bright and buzzing
with energy. Well, your left hand is dark and dense,
crackling with static. You feel the different particles separating, You
feel them trying to pull themselves back together. But with
your continued focus, you keep them apart, drawing more and
more and more of them apart as you go. Now,
when you're ready, just clap your hands together. With that command,
you allow your hands to snap back together, and sure enough,
there's a sudden explosion of a light one that shoots
you straight backwards. You fall down onto the ground, not
really sure exactly what happened. Great work, Martin says, But
the next step I kind of forgot to mention. You
have to create a path for the energy to try travel,
otherwise it'll just kind of explode like that, which was hilarious.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 1: You should see the look on your face. Martin walks
over and grabs you by the hand, pulling you back up.
Speaker 2: To your feet.
Speaker 1: Now, air isn't normally the best conductor of electricity, so
you have to create a path within it. I like
to just imagine the path in my mind connecting from
my hands too, well, whatever it is I'm aiming for.
Then I imagine myself pushing all of the electrons out
of that part of air, kind of like this.
Speaker 2: Here, grab my hand.
Speaker 1: You hold Martin's hand for a second, and strangely, as
you close your eyes, you can see the path that
Martin sees. You see it appearing in the world in
front of you, and then you can sort of sense
little things being pushed out of the path, creating a
perfect channel through the air. Now, when you clap your
hands back together, the energy has somewhere else to go.
Martin snaps his thumb and forefinger together, creating a small
bolt of lightning that travels through the path he well
intended it to and hits one of the stones on
the other side.
Speaker 2: Now it's your turn.
Speaker 1: Okay, You repeat the exercise from before, making your hands
like little magnets, one pulling the negative energy and one
pulling the positive energy apart. Then you imagine a pathway
extending out in front of you and connecting to the
stone wall on the other side. You open the pathway
up by pushing out the electrons, just as you saw
Martin do a few moments ago. When the pathway feels
the same as it did for Martin, you allow your
hands to slam back together once again. There's a strong
burst of energy, but this time it shoots as an
arc of lightning and connects to the wall on the
other side, blowing up the rock instead of throwing you backwards.
That was amazing. I don't think anybody's ever gotten that
on the first dry before. Ah Well, keep working at it,
and as you go you don't actually have to use
your hands. You can use two fingers, and eventually you
can just use your mind to separate the electricity. You
continue to experiment for a long time. You start by
using the clap method, just as you've learned from Martin,
building up different amounts of electricity, creating paths for it,
and suddenly unleashing it. When you get that figured out,
you switch to using just your pointer finger and your thumb,
using your thumb to pull the positive energy, your pointer
to pull the negative, and letting the two snap back together,
creating a bolt of lightning. Soon enough, you can create
bolts of lightning in each hand with ease. The more
often you do it, the easier the process becomes, the
feeling of it, and the muscle memory solidifies inside your
head to the point where it starts to feel natural
to unleash the bolts of light lightening themselves. This is
so cool, you say, But what do I do if
someone attacks me with lightning? Now that's a great question.
Speaker 2: Eh.
Speaker 1: There's a few methods to that, but the most basic
one is to redirect it. What I like to do
is use my mind to create paths from well directly
in front of me to directly behind me, the same
kind of paths you use to direct the lightning in
the first place. Watch this, Martin says. He walks out
in front of you, standing between you and the wall
and the other end. Now hit me with a bolt
of electricity, Martin says. He reaches his hand out as
if it's gonna stop the bolt itself. Trusting Martin that
this probably won't hurt him too much. You gather electricity
and both of your hands. You separate the different charges,
and you allow them to clap together, sending them directly
towards Martin. But instead of the bolt hitting them it
just kind of curves around him and strikes the wall behind.
That was so cool. Let me try again. You send
bolts after bolts of lightning at Martin, but no matter
how many you try or how large you make them,
they all just curve around his body and hit the
wall behind. Now it's your turn, kid, Close your eyes
and just imagine different paths for the lightning to follow.
Open the paths, push out the negative particles and the electrons.
Speaker 2: You do just that.
Speaker 1: You imagine a series of different pathways for the lightning
moving from the front of you to behind you. You
focus on moving the electrons out of the different pathways,
leaving them extra conductive and ready for the lightning to
travel through them. All right, I think I got it,
you announce. Martin reaches out as one hand to the
left and his other hand to the right. He gathers
an immense amount of electricity and then slaps his hands together.
A bolt flies directly at you. You continue to just
focus on the pathways and imagine the bolt of lightning
traveling through them instead of through you, and sure enough,
it arcs right around you and strikes the wall behind.
You and Martin continue practice for a while, until you
have the basics down, until you're able to create a
shield of pathways around yourself that can deflect lightning in
all different directions. Great work, kid, Now, the only next
step is to try it in a real world situation,
speaking of which, I'll be right back. Martin suddenly leaves
the room. While he's gone, you practice shooting lightning bolts,
You practice redirecting them using different pathways, curving them around
and loops. And eventually Martin returns, Uh, where'd you go?
You ask?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Nothing important, nothing important at all, Martin says, and then
his wand starts to pulse with energy. What's that you ask?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, oh?
Speaker 1: Martin says, that must be my alarm.
Speaker 2: Let me check.
Speaker 1: Martin picks up his wand and places it against his ear.
He begins nodding his head as if he's listening to
something on the phone. It's where Oh no, and and
what kind of creature? A lightning creature?
Speaker 2: You say?
Speaker 1: That's terrible. Now, don't worry the kid, and I'll be
right there. Something seems strange about Martin's voice. It sounds
more like acting than anything else. But you just kind
of shake it off. Uh, what was that you ask, well,
the bad news is there's some sort of lightning bird
creature headed directly for your house. But the good news
is you now know lightning and we can stop it.
Headed to my house. You ask, like, where my family is?
I can't we need to stop it. You say, no problem,
calm down. Martin summons his magic carpet and jumps aboard.
Come on, kid, no time to waste, he says, as
he flies off through the castle. You reach into your
pocket and pull out your backpack. You make it grow
just large enough to reach your hand in, and you
stick your arm right inside it, thinking about your magic skateboard.
You soon feel something in your hand and you pull
it out of the bag. It's your magic skateboard. You
place it onto the ground, climb aboard, and with just
a thought, your feet lock onto it, and the skateboard
shoots forward, flying through the halls of the castle, out
the door or and up into the air towards the
tree portal that you first got here through. Using the
tree portal, you and Martin head back to the real world.
You fly high above it, just below the clouds, until
you see familiar territory, your home, and sure enough, there's
some sort of strange lightning cloud in the distance. What
why is this thing attacking my house?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Martin responds, but you're gonna have to
use your new found powers to find out.
Speaker 2: You're starting to.
Speaker 1: Get awfully suspicious of Martin, but with some sort of
lightning thing heading towards your house, there's no time to
think about it. You fly directly above your home and
you begin to hover there on your magic skateboard a
cloud of lightning, and well, cloud starts to approach you.
Lightning shoots out in all different directions, and it stops
just above your home. If I were you, I'd do
that lightning deflection thing and maybe don't aim it for
your house, Martin says. You look up at the huge
cloud of lightning. It's getting meaner and scarier looking. So
you do just as Martin says. You begin to imagine
pathways appearing above you and then winding around to the
ground just outside your house. You create pathway after pathway
after pathway. I'm essentially creating a protective shield around your home.
The lightning cloud suddenly surges with electricity. A bolt of
lightning flies down towards you, but luckily It follows the
path you've created and strikes the ground harmlessly beside your home.
I can't believe that worked. You say, keep focusing, kid,
and you do. You focus on the cloud above you,
and time after time lightning begins shooting out of the cloud,
and time after time you deflect it. The question is,
how exactly are you going to stop this thing? It
seems to just keep happening. And then you get an idea.
You redirect the pathways from around your house and point
them back towards the cloud itself leashes another series of
lightning bolts, but this time, as they reach just above
your head, they hit one of your pathways, curve around,
and head right back towards the cloud, creating a small explosion.
The cloud unleashes more bolts of lightning, and again the
bolts travel through one of the pathways, curve back up,
and slam into the cloud, creating even larger explosions. Suddenly,
something starts to fall out of the cloud, something that's
on fire. It hits the ground just beside your house,
and the cloud itself just disappears.
Speaker 2: What is that? You ask?
Speaker 1: You and Martin fly down to check it out. As
you land on the ground. You see a large blue
bird the size of well, the size that you'd imagine
a terodactyl to be, laying there on the ground sparking
with electricity. Wow, how did my pet lightning bird get here?
Martin says, your pet lightning bird?
Speaker 2: You mean you did this?
Speaker 1: I shared did And there's nothing like real world experience
to solidify a power after all, Martin says, well, that
ends our session for today.
Speaker 2: See you next time. Buddy.
Speaker 1: Martin pulls out his backpack, opens it up, and suddenly
jumps inside match a carpet and all the backpack then
just disappears from existence. You stand there and shock, learning
that you're very You mentor planned this attack just to
test you. Oh well, eh, at least you're at your house.
You haven't been there in a while. You lift up
your skateboard and tuck it back inside your backpack, where
it kind of disappears into the little pocket dimension you
have created there. You head inside your house, say hello
to your family for a little while, and then head
to your bedroom. You pull back the covers and you
climb inside your bed. You're pretty tired from all this
creating and redirecting lightning thing, but you do feel pretty powerful.
As a result, you begin to just focus on your breath,
and with each breath you release a little more tension
with your arms and then your legs, just letting them
sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress. You notice
any tension in your shoulders and you let it go,
allowing them to just kind of sink down into the
mattress as well. You notice any tension in your stomach
or your chest, and with each out breath, you just
let it go. With each breath, you sink down deeper
and deeper into the mattress, feeling more and more relaxed
each time.
Speaker 2: Last, you notice any tension in.
Speaker 1: Your neck, your head, or your face, and you let
it fall away way as well. Soon, with a nice
half smile on your face, you begin to focus your
mind on your next adventure. You can go anywhere, and
you can do anything. The only limit is your imagination.
Good night everyone. Imagine yourself waking up inside your little
pocket dimension, a place tucked away inside a backpack that
has a bed, kitchen, living room, and anything else you
could really want. You get out of bed, you stretch
your arms and legs. You grab a little breakfast from
the kitchen area, and then you begin to climb up
the ladder, a ladder that leads to a little hatch
at the top of the pocket dimension. As you get
to the top of the ladder, you unzip the hatch
above you, also known as the top of your backpack.
Then you climb the rest of the way up the
ladder and find yourself standing in the middle of the
training hall. You reach down and grab the backpack and
placing it between both hands, you sort of squish them together,
and as you do, the backpack automatically shrinks. It shrinks
and shrinks and shrinks until it's a little keychain sized
backpack that you tuck away in your pocket. Magic really
is pretty amazing, after all. While you're looking around the room,
another backpack suddenly appears out of nowhere, lands on the floor,
and you see the zipper unzip. Out of the top
of the backpack emerges a very bald, very bearded, and
very wizardy sort of man.
Speaker 2: Martin.
Speaker 1: Oh, Hey, good morning, kid, Martin says, I've really been thinking.
I've taught you lightning magic, I've taught you fire magic.
I've taught you how to lift things with your mind.
You kind of learned the ice magic thing on your own. Man,
I even taught you nature magic. The question is what's
the most important type of magic to use next? And
then it hit me, time magic. It's basically something you've
already learned a little of when you were doing the
nature magic, and it happens to be one of my specialties,
Martin explains. You see, Martins are known throughout space, time,
and across different universes for their command and control of
time and space magic. In fact, many of my counterparts
from different parts of the multiverse are in charge of
keeping the multiverse safe, and I try not to get
involved with that too often, but sometimes I get dragged
into it either way. As a result, I've really figured
out this time magic thing.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 1: What is time magic anyways? Like you mean like time travel?
Well sort of, I mean you can kind of time
travel to a place you've been before. But what I'm
really talking about is controlling the speed of existence. Cool,
you respond, not really sure what Martin's talking about. You see,
the speed of existence is very different than the speed
of movement. You can run from one place to another
incredibly quickly, but can you exist faster? That's the real question.
You stand there staring at Martin with your eyes wide open,
completely confused as to what it is he's talking about.
Uh see, you're not really getting this. Well, have you
ever seen one of those superhero movies, like one where
the superpowered character is moving super fast and they show
that by slowing down everything else around them.
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have seen that.
Speaker 1: Before you respond, well, i'd consider that not to be
moving fast, but existing fast. Every part of your body
exists at a faster pace compared to you. Everything else
seems very very slow, But in reality, it's because you
are existing very very fast, your mind, your body, your everything.
On the other hand, you could exist slower than everything else.
It would seem like everybody was flying by you in
a blur. Day would turn to night quicker than you
could imagine. It's really not as useful. And unless you
want to travel to the future, of course, But going back,
Oh boy is that hard, honestly, kid, and I don't
recommend it. It's uh well, he can have some serious consequences.
Oh okay, So what do we start with first? And
what exactly is time magic useful for? You?
Speaker 2: Ask?
Speaker 1: But before Martin can even respond, he just kind of disappears.
You feel a tap on your right shoulder and you
turn around to see him standing right there. Did you
just teleport? You ask?
Speaker 2: Nah, not exactly.
Speaker 1: I just shifted into a faster speed of existence and
then walked over behind you before you could even tell.
Speaker 2: Oh. Wow.
Speaker 1: You begin to imagine all the uses for such a power.
You'd have time to stop and think about a situation
you could get out of, almost any trouble you could
get yourself into. It certainly seems like a very useful power.
All right, Well, how do I do this time magic thing?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: Well, like anything else, Martin responds, there's a lot of
ways to do it, But now I'm gonna start you
out with the way I learned basically. Anyways, Now let's
sit down on the ground. You and Martin both sit
down on the ground, your legs crossed. Martin places his
hands in his lap and what looks like a meditation pose.
You copy what he's doing and listen very carefully. All right, First,
like anything, you've got to relax. You have to center
yourself in a place where anything is possible. You do
your best to do just that. You close your eyes,
You begin to anchor on your breath, noticing your stomach
as it goes in and out. And as you do,
you start to focus your mind on a memory, a
memory that makes you feel very relaxed, very happy, a
feeling of things being completely unlimited, all of the possibilities
in the world set out before you. A good job, kid,
Martin says, now that you're in the right state, I
need you to focus on going faster now. I know,
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking your goal is
to slow down time. Man, well, I guess you could
try to do that. Slowing down everything else is way
way more difficult than just speeding yourself up. Time is relative,
after all, So just imagine yourself going faster. Imagine every
part of your body, every cell, every molecule, every atom,
every electron, moving faster, vibrating faster, man, just generally going faster.
With your eyes closed, you begin to imagine just that.
You imagine every cell in your body is starting to
move at a faster rate. And then you imagine even smaller,
every molecule, every atom vibrating at a faster pace. And
as you do, and you continue to repeat faster, faster,
faster inside your mind, your body starts to feel a
little bit strange, a little like you've had way too
much candy or something like that. And as you open
your eyes, you see that Martin has almost entirely stopped moving.
I mean, he's still moving a little bit. You watch
as his eye blinks at an incredibly slow pace. You
stand up. Your body's still feeling like it's buzzing with
energy and like you're full of sugar. You walk around
the room and everything else is frozen.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: You run towards the door that opens up into the
room and you push on it, hoping to open it up,
and fortunately for you, what happens is far more destructive.
And as you push on the wooden door that leads
into the training area, the door just sort of falls
apart in your hands. It begins to break into thousands
of little wood chunks and pieces. The pieces move quickly
at first, but then slow down as they move away
from you and begin flying through the air. Did you
just destroy the door? I guess if you're moving faster,
then it was as if the door was hit with
something moving at an incredible speed. You never really considered
this aspect of the power. Not only can you move
very fast, but as a result, you are incredibly strong,
at least compared to other things moving at a different pace.
You carefully walk through the halls of the Magic Academy,
and as you do, everything you see around you is
frozen in place. Who are almost frozen in place?
Speaker 2: Anyways?
Speaker 1: The people walk in a very strange looking slow motion.
You easily walk between them, dodging between one person and
another person. You walk up the stairs and through the hallway,
and wherever you go it's as if you're watching a
slow motion video. You continue to walk down the hall
until you hear.
Speaker 2: A voice, Hey kid, wait up.
Speaker 1: You turn around to look behind you, and you see
Martin running down the hall after you. And that took
me a second to get in this mode too. I
can't believe you did it and you're able to sustain
the power this long. It's cool, isn't it? Martin says,
it's really really cool. You respond. You and Martin continue
to walk through the hall of slow motion people, carefully
dodging around them. By the way, I think I kind
of wrecked the door to the training area. Oh yeah,
and I saw that. Don't worry about it. Happened to
me the first time I went into slow or fast
motion whatever we're calling this thing. You see, when you're
existing at this speed, you have a higher time density.
It might feel like you're just pushing on a door
or something like that, but to the door, it feels
like it's being hit by an object going hundreds, if
not thousands, of miles an hour. Man, As you can imagine,
doors don't really like being hit at thousands of miles
per hour by anything. I mean that those speeds a
paper airplane could blow a door apart. It's honestly pretty crazy.
You and Martin walk into the cafeteria of the school
once again. You see a very strange, very slow motion
seen unfolding in front of you. You see people eating food,
people getting food, people sitting at tables and laughing with
one another. And then you see Tyrannus. Tyrannus Rexington. He
and his friends are hanging out at a table, but
they're clearly bullying, if not torturing, some.
Speaker 2: Of the other students.
Speaker 1: You walk over to Wardam to see exactly what's going on.
You see Tyrannus pointing as wand towards another student and
unleashing a tiny bolt of lightning, just like he did
to you.
Speaker 2: The other day.
Speaker 1: You can see the lightning moving and slow motion as
the boy slowly reacts to getting hit in the bum
by a bolt of lightning. It's a very strange scene
to behold that little I am not letting him get
away with this, you announced to Martin, and I wouldn't
expect anything less.
Speaker 2: Kid.
Speaker 1: Just keep it civil, okay, Oh, I'm not sinking to
his level. You respond, in your very fast state of existence.
You walk over to Tyrannus. You examine the scene taking
place in front of you, and you come up with
a clever plan. It was just the other day that
Martin taught you how to control lightning, and you think
you might have a use for it. Now, you focus
your mind on creating a path for the lightning, a
path free of charge. You watch the path move through
the air from just behind the student being hit by
the lightning bolt, curving around through the air right back
to Tyrannus Rexington's toe. As you solidify the path, you
watch as the slow motion lightning stops hitting the child
and moves into the pathway. It slowly curves around arcs
back towards Tyrannus and strikes him in the toe. You
watch as his face very very slowly turns from one
of laughter and happiness to one of sudden pain and anger.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to talk to him, you say
to Martin, how do we get out of this thing?
Speaker 2: Well, well, that's a lot easier.
Speaker 1: You just kind of relax, take a deep breath, let
go of all the tension and your arms and legs. Man,
just give yourself permission to stop existing so quickly. Taking
a long, deep breath always helps with that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 1: Just that, you breathe in as much as you possibly can,
and you breathe out very quickly, focusing on relaxing all
of your muscles and allowing time to return to normal. Suddenly,
all of the noise of the cafeteria fills your ears,
and people start to move at their normal pace, including
Tyrannus Rexington, who suddenly jumping up and down on one foot,
yelling and pain. Who who did this? Tyrannus says it
was you, wasn't it. He goes on to accuse, well,
you know what, Tyrannus, it was me. Well, actually it
was kind of you. It was your own lightning bolt,
after all?
Speaker 3: Why you little ungrateful, normal, non magic person I challenge
you to undouel.
Speaker 2: Oh a duel? You say, let's do it.
Speaker 1: The entire cafeteria suddenly goes silent, and everyone walks out
onto the balcony of the courtyard. You and Tyrannas step
into a little dueling area, one that you visited on
your very first day in the castle. You pull the
wand out of your pocket and Tyrannus does the same thing.
All right, kids, Martin says, are you all ready for
a duel? The crowd erupts with loud cheers and applause.
The kids here really seem to like duels. There's just
a couple rules. Number one, nothing lethal. Mall spells must
be safe, even if they are designed to knock out
your opponent or something like that. If one opponent is
incapacitated or well gives up, the other wizard wins. We
will begin in three two one. As soon as he
announces the word one, you shift back into your time mode.
You find it a little easier to do this time,
urging yourself to move faster and faster, but your body
figures it out much more quickly than the first time.
You don't speed up quite as much as last time either,
but you do speed up enough that everything around you
seems very slow. Tyrannus unleashes a bolt of lightning from
the tip of his want. The lightning moves towards you
pretty quickly, but with enough time to see it coming
and enough time to form protective paths for the lightning
from directly in front of you to directly back at Tyrannus.
You watch as the lightning slowly hits the paths, curves around,
and once again strikes Tyrannus in the toe. He jumps
up and down in slow motion pain. This new time
power is an absolute game changer. There's hundreds, if not thousands,
of ways you could win this duel. Moving at a
different speed is an advantage like almost no other. But
watching Tyrannus jump up and down in pain and looking
kind of angry while holding his foot.
Speaker 2: Gives you an idea.
Speaker 1: You speed yourself even more, with the result of slowing
everything else down even more, until Tyrannus is just about
frozen in place, holding his toe with both of his hands,
and when singing pain, pain that he clearly caused himself.
Seeing him like this like a statue, makes you think
that Tyrannus would make a very good statue, but how
exactly can you make him a statue for everyone else?
As you think through the possibilities, you remember the nature
magic you learned, where you were able to affect the
speed and movement of plants, causing them to grow faster. Clearly,
it must be possible to turn down other people's time, rhythm,
or whatever you might call it. You walk up towards
Tyrannus and you look at him, very, very carefully. You
begin to imagine him existing slower, even slower than he
already is. You pull your wand out, you point it
towards him, and you allow your energy and his energy
to become one. As you focus on Tyrannus, you focus
on the opposite of what you focused on to move faster.
You imagine every bit of him moving even slower, until
it's basically stopped. It's hard to tell since you're moving
so quickly, but it's as if he looks less solid,
almost like a ghost. Moving at this speed, you can
see the space between his atoms. It's really strange, but
you're pretty sure you've accomplish your task. You close your eyes,
you take in a slow, deep, breath, and as you
release it, you relax all of your muscles, and time
shoots back to normal, well for everyone other than Tyrannus,
who's suddenly stuck standing right in front of you in
the exact same pose he was before, looking like a statue,
perfectly healthy, perfectly fine, but moving at such a slow
speed that it'll take him a while to figure out
how to get out of that, and in the meantime,
the courtyard will have a very beautiful statue. The crowd
around you cheers once they figure out that you've won
the thing. A great job, kid, that's certainly something I
never even tie. You put your hands together for kid, wizard,
I keep forgetting asked the kid's name, Martin says, and
the crowd cheers even louder, and you begin to feel
pretty tired. You say you good bye to Martin and
you walk away from the cafeteria. You've only been awake
for a short time, but it feels like a much
much longer time, probably because of the speed you were
existing at. You reach into your pocket, pull out the
little keychain sized backpack, put a hand on each side
of it, and open your hands apart, like you're zooming
in on a touch screen. With that, the backpack grows
to normal size, if not a bit larger. You place
it on the ground, unzip it, and climb inside, climbing
down a little ladder. The zipper closes above you, and
presumably the backpack disappears from existence as well. You immediately
climb into your comfortable bed. You pull the covers up
over top of yourself, and you close your eyes, just
like you did when you were shifting out of your
fast time mode. You take a long, deep breath and
then release it quickly, allowing all of the tension to
drain away from your.
Speaker 2: Arms and your legs.
Speaker 1: You sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress with
each breath, and slowly you close your eyes, and you
allow your mind to drift off to dreams of new
things and new adventures to come. Good Night, everyone, Sai.